BETHEL, N.Y. – Good vibes will replace the mosh pits, riots and rapes of July’s Woodstock as ’60s rockers gather today at Max Yasgur’s farm to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original hippie love fest.

David Crosby, Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie and a number of other performers who played here in 1969 say they’re returning determined to infuse the Woodstock name with some much needed peace and love.

“All over the world people know about Woodstock,” said Rick Danko, the former bassist with The Band.

“It’s just too bad it reflects this other stuff. If anything is going to restore it to something that isn’t advocating violence and stupidity, this will.”

Danko remembers flying in a helicopter to Woodstock ’69 and being stunned when he saw the 400,000 people who had gathered to hear the rock legends of the day – Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who and Grateful Dead among them.

From those same times, today’s Woodstock line-up will also feature Joe McDonald, Melanie, Johnny Winter and Leslie West of Mountain.

The nostalgic reunion concert is the second Woodstock show that’s taken place in Bethel since local multimillionaire Alan Gerry bought the Yasgur farm three years ago.

His Gerry Foundation wants to turn the site into a year-round concert venue to tap into the legendary Woodstock cachet.

A foundation spokesman said it would be designed to attract older and more modest-size crowds than the hundreds of thousands who thronged to Saugerties for Woodstock ’94 and rioted in Rome at Woodstock ’99 last month.

“We have a different vision of what this site should become,” the spokesman said.

“It should be a destination. We’re not venue-hopping. We’re also looking for a more mature audience – people who actually remember the original Woodstock.”

The organizers hope 40,000 people will attend today’s “Day in the Garden” concert, named after a line in the Joni Mitchell hippie anthem “Woodstock.”

Last year a three-day festival, headlined by Pete Townshend, attracted 75,000 to the site.

Many of the artists playing today have remained friends since Woodstock ’69 and some, like Guthrie and Crosby, are performing with their kids this time around.

“I think it will be a little nostalgic,” Guthrie said.

“There’s a lot of aspects of this to me personally that mean more than just going to another gig.”

The concert begins at 11 a.m. with tickets priced $19.69 – get it? – available at the box office on Hurd Road between Route 17B and West Shore Drive, west of Bethel.